White Smoke

Yusef takes Marigold and Sammy to a pumpkin farm. Yusef asks if Marigold has a boyfriend back home. She says she did but does not elaborate. Yusef has no girlfriend. He mentions that the Sterling Foundation is trying to tear down the library; when Marigold suggests that not all change is bad, Yusef insists that places in Maplewood could be fixed without demolition. He also suggests kindness toward Piper since she has no friends at school.

Back at home, Marigold finds black specks under a couch cushion; she is terrified, believing they are bedbugs. She strips naked and scrubs her body, panicking about all the things that she must burn. Frightened, Sammy calls Raquel, who comes home and spends almost an hour helping Marigold to calm down. The specks are coffee grounds. It is a mystery how they got to the couch.

Marigold intends to find Erika at school and purchase marijuana from her, but Erika is arrested. She insists that whatever they found was not hers. She asks Yusef to help her grandmother as she is pulled from the school. When Marigold goes home, Mr. Sterling is there.